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On 06/08/2012 09:06 AM, Alex Efros wrote: |
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> Hi! |
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> On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 07:15:40AM -0400, Aaron W. Swenson wrote: |
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>>>> I started a discussion on gentoo-user about the fact that the |
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>>>> hardened profile appears to only be for servers and not desktops. |
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>>>> I thought I'd check with you guys on this. Is that the case? |
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> Actually, I see no reasons to NOT use hardened on desktops. |
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True |
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> Only critical bug is broken VMware/VirtualBox on amd64+hardened. |
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This one is a moving target. Sometimes broken, times fixed. kvm is |
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working very well of late. |
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> Everything else is works fine on hardened AFAIK. Even unsupported |
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> nvidia-drivers works fine (they needed for 3D acceleration in VMware). |
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> Sometimes you need to get extra patches from bugzilla or run paxctl, |
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> but this isn't too much headache to avoid it at cost of significantly |
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> lower overall security. |
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nouveau works great on hardened desktops |
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radeon compiled with llvm needs some fancy pax markings, but also works |
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Anthony G. Basile, Ph. D. |
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Chair of Information Technology |
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D'Youville College |
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